Is there a perfect 3rd Party?

[woo me with science]

12. Perfection is not the point, and it's a silly bar to use.

The point isn't that there is some perfect third party out there. The point is that the party that used to represent us, very often doesn't anymore. Most third party voters at this point are protest votes more than anything else. I made the point before that probably much of Ron Paul's surge is not made up of people who embrace libertarianism at all. They are former major party voters who are fed up with being ignored by the parties that used to represent them.

Voting third party is not the only way to send a message, but it is certainly one way. Here's another important line from the article:

"Our efforts must be directed toward acts of civil disobedience, to chipping away, through nonviolent protest at the pillars of established, corporate power."

I am guessing that many here will vote Dem, but they will invest their greatest energy, time, and financial support in Occupy, because that is where they see an effort toward real change.